What writing program can one download easily?

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You could also pirate MS Office. Used to do it when I was broke. But now, I prefer to buy it since you get 1TB of cloud storage + you can invite up to 5 family members who will as well receive 1TB each. A yearly license can be found below $100.

Both emacs and vi come to mind. I have these occasional flirtations with Linux about every 2 years. Mainly I'm a Mac guy but I keep a Windows laptop around for if/when my company gives me home access to the network. They keep threatening but it hasn't happened yet. That's ok - I can certainly wait.

I have MS office on both my Mac and PC. Path of least resistance.

You don't need Linux for that... your Mac runs the latest version of OpenStep! They call it Darwin these days, and macOS is just a GUI over Darwin.

Use the Terminal command and glory in all that is /bin/bash!

If you just need to write some notes and/or some organizing, check out Notion:

https://www.notion.so/

Love this program. They are quite cheap IMO (well for me free of charge since I am a student).

I'm an old-school vi user and the cryptic keystrokes to do things come easily to me, but only cause I've been using it for thirty years and back then there was little else. While it works wonders for code (try finding the matching parens or brace with the flick of a "%" in any other program).

But I wouldn't consider writing a letter to grandma or a resume with it, unless your audience is programmers who don't care about formatting. To answer your question, I still use a bootleg version of Word, but I'm waiting for the day they say "Sorry this is unlicensed, closing program now". The it'll be something like libreoffice or open office. I'll cross that bridge when it comes. I won't pay Microsoft for any more than operating systems and really hate any rental scheme.

As I mentioned before, Wordpad is already there and is an RTF editor, so you can apply formatting.